There's something very cool about stomping over in a titan, hopping out with it on guard mode, grabbing the flag and titaning out again. Riding on someone else's titan with the flag is also cool.

This. I love the CTF mode, just saying matchmaking can be a little sketch. I actually tend to gravitate toward CTF in just about every shooter, wish devs would spend more time coming up with original objective-based modes instead of having to rely on that one though.

The beginning/tutorial/starter parts of the game are so amazingly badly done it's silly.

This. From what I saw it committed the same sin as every other NCSoft MMO and was basically a blended up smoothie of better games. Nothing we haven't seen elsewhere. I guess if you need another grind/subscription.